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Obukhov government order engineThe success of the domestic mechanical engineering industry largely depends on whether we can put diesel engines of our own design into production. Leningrad has historically been one of the centers of diesel production in our country. St. Petersburg, despite the deindustrialization of the 1990s, retained the backbone of enterprises in this industry. Today, St. Petersburg factories successfully fulfill defense and civilian government orders. Our guest today talks about Russian diesel engines of the new generation.
– Pavel Garievich, what is the current state of diesel engineering in our country and in our city?
– The turning point in the history of the domestic diesel industry came in 2011. Then, at the congress of the Russian Union of Mechanical Engineers, the country's President Vladimir Putin announced two strategically important branches of mechanical engineering: machine tool building and diesel engineering. After this, a federal program for the development of diesel production was launched.
Since then, the development of a new generation diesel engine has begun in Russia. Moreover, we are talking about a full line of models of different power and purpose, medium and high speed. Several factories across the country have begun designing such units.
Our plant has historically been engaged in the production of high-speed engines, so we did not change our guidelines, but began developing new models in 2012. And I would say that today high-speed engines are literally one step away from a new cycle of their technical evolution.
– What is the difference between medium- and high-speed diesel engines?
– High-speed engines are used on high-speed vessels – for example, “Meteors”, where maximum power is needed in a short period of time. And medium- and low-speed units are useful where long-term and continuous operation is needed: on ordinary ships or on locomotives. The current trend is that with a power of 2 - 2.5 MW, only high-speed motors will operate in the near future.
– Many companies in the world are engaged in diesel production. What market niche do you see for your developments?
– We have created a unique machine. It meets the economic and environmental requirements of tomorrow and can be used in different formats. We started this work even before Western sanctions, so we planned to enter international markets with the new engine. We relied on the best design minds, the latest technologies, and attracted the best – without exaggeration – engineering team in the world. For several years our guys worked away from their families in Western Europe.
We have one step left - to organize mass production. According to our plans, this should happen in 2018. This will be easier to do given the fact that diesel production is recognized as a strategic direction for the development of industry in St. Petersburg. The main investors of the project are our company and Vnesheconombank.
– To launch a diesel engine into series, you will probably need not only financial, but also industrial cooperation. Is it appropriate to talk about creating a diesel cluster in St. Petersburg?
– Perhaps this is unlikely if we talk about some kind of merger of enterprises. There are about ten diesel plants operating in Russia. Today, some of these plants are integrated into various holdings, for which diesel production is not a priority. Some diesel factories are completely free-floating. Now, if they had some prospects for cooperation, it would be more logical. But the experience of Western countries shows that the development of high-tech industries in one way or another occurs with the support of the state.
– Have Western sanctions affected your work?
“The sanctions brought us some kind of sobering up. They reminded us that we should rely only on ourselves. There is also a positive effect: we have new orders due to the termination of supplies of equipment by some foreign companies. But problems related to technical re-equipment immediately emerged: the purchase of equipment and technologies became more complicated. Our technical re-equipment programs were tied to the purchase of equipment, mainly foreign. Unfortunately, not many Russian suppliers meet our high requirements today. Due to the lack of external sources, it has become more difficult to obtain financing. At the same time, undoubtedly, the depreciation of the ruble has made our products more competitive in both the Russian and world markets.
– Was the severance of ties with Ukrainian suppliers noticeable?
– Of course, the loss of such a powerful partner and native neighbor is sad. It was very painful for us; we had to learn a lot ourselves. For example, for several years Ukrainian factories supplied us with liners for the production of engines. This is an element made of high-strength steel with complex geometry that requires special processing. We had to organize their production at Zvezda. Although we do not believe that absolutely everything for engine production needs to be produced ourselves. Now we make up to 90% of the components ourselves: from aluminum ingots to more complex elements, cylinders, for example. And there are as many as 112 of these cylinders in our engine alone.
– Do you mass-produce engines, making them cheaper, or do you work on piece orders?
– Compared to the Soviet period, the volume of orders in the post-perestroika period fell tenfold. For several decades, we basically made ends meet. Therefore, it was unprofitable to mass produce something: we always worked to order and lived quite frugally.
But today, when the opportunity has arisen to provide the Russian fleet and other large customers with our products, we have to change the very approach to work. In recent years, due to the foreign policy situation, the volume of orders from us has tripled. Of course, this is a certain challenge for us. This requires the organization of production at a completely different level, a transition to serial production. We are now at the stage of reformatting production.
– Today there is a lot of talk about moving factories out of the city. Will this campaign affect you?
– From the point of view of organizing production, our territory is optimal. Obukhovo is not the center, but not the periphery either. If we talk about the campaign to move factories out of St. Petersburg, I remember how diesel production is organized in Austria. The factories operate in the heart of Graz, the second largest city in the country, next to residential buildings. And there are no problems or conversations regarding “gray belts” there.
In my view, the main challenge is to be smarter about the economy over the long term. In Russia people often run after a very short result or some newfangled trend. Europeans are extremely pragmatic on this issue. In their opinion, if a company is located in the city center and provides several hundred people with jobs, complies with all environmental requirements and significantly fills the city budget, generates orders for scientists, accepts students from technical universities for internships, then such a plant is a good prospect for the city decades. Momentary hobbies are alien to Europeans. Unfortunately, we don't.
– Do you have plans for expansion?
– Of course, and this is all connected with the departure of Ukrainian suppliers. We are preparing to launch a new production complex, the costs of which exceeded 2 billion rubles. We plan to open it this fall. Taking into account the commissioning of new capacities, Zvezda will fully supply the increased volumes of government orders with components.
– Doesn’t the plan to optimize the vast territory of Zvezda contradict the idea of expanding production?
– No, because, of course, we have plenty of space. But there are historical reasons for this. During the Soviet years, it was believed that after half the area of the enterprise was bombed, it would still be able to operate on the remaining territory. That is why in old Soviet factories everything is so uncompact and many technological areas are duplicated.
Of course, this cannot be explained in any way from the point of view of a market economy. Now the main production is concentrated on about a third of our territory. We had different ideas about how best to redevelop the remaining area. Based on a long-term perspective, in 2010 we decided to create an industrial technology park. Today there are about a dozen self-sufficient manufacturing enterprises operating there. Some make simulators, some work for the auto industry or the construction market, some do machining.
– Are blue-collar jobs still not very popular among today’s youth? Is this supported by your experience?
– Not really, because we are trying to explain to young people that working with technology is much more interesting than in the office. It is filled with specifics and provides an opportunity for real creativity. Zvezda cooperates with educational institutions and attracts the best students. We have signed agreements with many technical universities and colleges in the city. Last year, the Department of Engines and Mechanisms of the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University appeared at the plant. I would like to note that we now have quite a lot of young designers.
In April, for the second time, we took part in the all-Russian campaign for career guidance for young people, “Week Without Turnstiles,” which is organized by the Union of Mechanical Engineers of Russia. Within a month, 109 students from educational institutions in St. Petersburg were able to freely visit the enterprise. We regularly organize excursions to the enterprise for schoolchildren and anyone interested.
We are also developing a mentoring system. Last year, about 70 students from 13 educational institutions in the city took on internships. 58 plant employees were assigned to them as mentors. Beginners can study for three months, during which time they will more easily enter the work process.
We constantly conduct training, retraining and advanced training programs for employees. We have a license to train specialists in 26 working specialties. Last year alone, the School for Young Workers trained 16 qualified workers, and more than 200 people underwent advanced training. And there are pleasant results: our employees regularly become winners of the “Best in Profession” competition in the Nevsky District.”
Prepared by Galina NAZAROVA
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The St. Petersburg-based Zvezda PJSC, controlled by the entrepreneur, increased its revenue for 2017 by a third, but wear and tear on the machine park did not allow the plant to fulfill military orders on time.
St. Petersburg manufacturer of marine diesel engines Zvezda increased revenue by 33.33% over the past year. The increase in turnover was facilitated by state defense orders, which, according to plant co-owner Pavel Plavnik, have increased the portfolio sevenfold over the past three years. Despite the growth in cash flow, wear and tear on equipment prevents the plant from showing high profits. The company's management is exploring various options for attracting financing for modernization.
PJSC Zvezda published its financial statements for last year. During this period, the company's revenue increased by a third: from 1.5 billion rubles to 2 billion rubles. The St. Petersburg plant produces high-speed diesel engines for the military and civil fleet and gearboxes for power plants of medium-tonnage warships. Also, several years ago, the company developed a prototype of the Pulsar diesel engine, which Zvezda plans to produce for several segments of the civil market: railway transport, quarry and construction equipment, diesel generator sets, as well as for inland and coastal vessels.
According to the general director of NPK Zvezda (the group's management company) Pavel Plavnik, the growth is associated with an increase in the volume of state defense orders. “The order portfolio has grown more than seven times in three years,” says Mr. Plavnik. According to him, the main increase in the plant’s portfolio came from orders for power plants for small missile ships (MRVs) of Project 22800 Karakurt (built by the Pella plants in the Leningrad region, the More plant in Feodosia and the Zelenodolsk plant named after Gorky in Tatarstan) and minesweepers project 12700 "Alexandrite" (built by the St. Petersburg Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard), as well as gearboxes for ships being built at the Northern Shipyard and the Amur Shipyard (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation).
The Ministry of Defense began placing orders for the construction of the Karakurt small missile launcher after Russian factories were unable to timely deliver the medium-tonnage warships ordered by the military department earlier. The reason was the refusal of foreign power plant manufacturers to supply to Russia: the Ukrainian Zorya-Mashproekt and the German MTU refused to supply engines for Russian frigates and corvettes in 2014, after Russia annexed Crimea and the outbreak of hostilities in eastern Ukraine. Small missile ships, according to the Navy's plan, should replace larger ships that did not enter service on time. To date, 12 MRKs have been ordered in Russia, all of them equipped with high-speed Zvezda engines. Kommersant's sources in the industry suggested a few years ago that a sharp increase in the number of small rocket ships under construction would lead to a delay in the production of equipment for these orders: suppliers, in conditions of limited production capacity and the need to urgently increase the number of personnel, are unable to meet the deadlines .
“We do not have time to complete what is necessary: the state of the equipment does not allow us to meet the deadlines,” explained Pavel Plavnik. For the same reason, the company shows low profits: with an increase in turnover by a third, it amounted to 14 million rubles. “There is a lot of work in progress. A large amount of costs are incurred to ensure the operability of the equipment. The percentage of wear and tear on equipment requires high costs,” says the co-owner of the plant. Last year, Zvezda purchased 12 new metalworking machines, some of which arrived at the enterprise today. But to successfully fulfill the state defense order, the plant will need further updating of its machine fleet.
"Diesel" oligarch Plavnik at the center of a new media scandal in Tyumen
Egor Serov
In a seemingly calm region, which is considered the Tyumen region, serious passions are raging, and not just anywhere, but in the “strategic” media sphere. This time, the largest radio holding company in the region, Radio Western Siberia, became the object of attention of law enforcement agencies.
Reference. The Radio Western Siberia (RZS) holding is one of the largest regional radio broadcasting networks. It owns frequencies in 15 cities of the Tyumen region, Yamalo-Nenets and Khanty-Mansiysk autonomous districts, including Tyumen, Salekhard, Khanty-Mansiysk. In these cities, there is a radio station that is part of the holding structure, broadcasting under the “Red Army” brand (exists since 2001). Since 2007, the holding has been broadcasting the radio station “La Femme”, designed for a female audience, on the VHF band in Tyumen. In addition, in the capital of the Tyumen region, RZS is a network partner of the radio stations “Europe Plus” and “Radio “Retro”, which are part of the “European Media Group”. The holding is not organizationally formalized, as it consists of several companies united by one group of owners. In particular, a package of licenses for radio frequencies in the cities of the Tyumen region, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (the Red Army broadcasts on them) was issued to Radio Western Siberia CJSC. The frequency on which “Red Army” broadcasts in Tyumen is owned by Starlet LLC, and the frequency on which “Europe Plus” is located belongs to Radio Hermes CJSC. Until the fall of 2005, these companies were headed by Vladimir Bogodelov, who controlled them from 25% to 26%. The main owners of Starlet LLC, Radio Hermes CJSC and RZS CJSC are structures controlled by Pavel Plavnik (in particular, the St. Petersburg Hermes Company, headed by him, owns 70.44% of the shares of RZS CJSC). At the moment, the structures included in the holding are headed by Anzori Isakov.
However, the history of conflicts around this asset did not begin today or yesterday. To understand what is happening with the group broadcasting to 15 cities of the Tyumen region (together with the Yamalo-Nenets and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrugs), you need to go back to 2005. Then the main owners of the holding, Pavel Plavnik and Gennady Danilov (currently they manage the FIG “Speed Fleet” (St. Petersburg), as well as a number of companies, including those that own the media holding) actually dismissed the founder of the company , General Director of ZAO Radio Western Siberia Vladimir Bogodelov. Instead of him, a certain Anzori Isakov was appointed, a small entrepreneur whose main merit, at that time, was allegedly his relationship with Pavel Plavnik.
But it was not possible to part with the guru of the Tyumen media market on good terms, since Mr. Bogodelov and his wife owned shares and interests in the structures included in the media holding. Moreover, in some structures these shares amounted to 26%, which guaranteed the main shareholders a continuous headache. From that moment on, the fighting began, although sluggish, but no less nervous, around this asset. Then, in a company controlled by Vladimir Bogodelov, police searches are taking place related to an old case, clearly hinting at which way “the wind blows.” Then a lawsuit is being prepared against the “competing company” in the arbitration court.
But this did not lead to any tangible results, since both the authorities and, by and large, the prosecutor’s office and the police remained aloof from this “dispute between economic entities.”
Perhaps the lack of attention from the public and authorities to this conflict has led the current leadership to the idea that any activity will not have any consequences. Who would dare to touch such a socio-political resource as a group of radio stations?
And off we go. Since 2006, the holding has undergone a financial and organizational restructuring, as a result of which numerous LLCs with the same names were organized - “Simply Radio”, “All Radio”, “RIA Radio of Western Siberia”, “RZS-ART”. They are mainly engaged in collecting money for advertising... which is broadcast on the radio stations “Red Army”, “Europe Plus” and others that are part of the holding. That is, the money ends up in small LLCs, and the radio stations themselves live on a tight budget, only enough to pay staff salaries. Naturally, the true owners are not known, only the directors of these small companies that control the airwaves of a large holding company are known. For example, “Just Radio” and “All Radio” are headed by Natalya Plavnik, who is also the financial director of Radio Western Siberia. There is no point in introducing this person; his rare surname makes it possible to trace the connections of the “West Siberian” financier. As well as the possible path of financial flows directed by this person.
By the way, not only the public became interested in the paths of these flows, but also law enforcement agencies, which had previously not shown due interest in the activities of the media holding. To satisfy this interest, on June 20 of this year a criminal case was opened under Part 3 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, “Fraud on a large scale.” The most interesting thing in this case is that its main person involved is the already mentioned Ms. Plavnik, who is still involved in building schemes that law enforcement agencies probably do not consider legal. If they manage to prove this, then the financial service of the holding may lose its leader for about six years, and this is precisely the term of imprisonment provided for by this article.
Whether this criminal case, in which a person close to Pavel Plavnik, who undertook the construction of diesel engines, appears, is a signal that the regional media market is not a subject for the free creativity of oligarchs or not, the investigation will show, as they say. But one thing is clear - the regional media, which belong to Mr. Plavnik’s team, require attention as an important socio-political resource, and not as an ordinary business project in the category of “squeezing everything out and selling it.” And if this attention is not paid to radio stations, then it may happen that the history of the radio holding will not end with just a criminal case.
The St. Petersburg enterprise Zvezda and the Ural Diesel Engine Plant (UDMZ), part of the Sinara group, created a joint venture at the end of last year to produce new generation diesel engines. The project is designed to satisfy both domestic demand and the needs of foreign markets. Chairman of the Board of Directors of PJSC Zvezda Pavel Plavnik spoke about the progress of the project, work plans and diversification of production in an interview with Interfax.
- Pavel Garievich, what are Zvezda’s financial indicators at the end of 2017?
Revenue increased 1.5 times compared to last year, to 2.1 billion rubles. In terms of the number of different products sold, the increase was 23%. Net profit is small, about 40 million rubles. This is due to the period of growth: there are large reserves, a lot of funds are spent on maintaining and developing technological capabilities, since the equipment fleet is largely worn out and requires significant costs for renewal and modernization. The overwhelming majority of revenue - more than 90% - was generated through state defense orders in shipbuilding.
- Are there plans to reduce the share of state defense orders?
Of course, we would like to diversify our sales markets as much as possible; the main driver should be the new families of high-speed diesel engines M-150 and DM-185. By bringing these engines to market, it will be possible to achieve deeper penetration into areas such as railway technology, quarry equipment and automated power plants. The engines themselves have been created, there are sales markets, the need has been confirmed in the amount of about 1 thousand units per year. The main share is engines for power plants, then for shunting railway equipment, and to a lesser extent for shipbuilding. The issue of financing the organization of serial production of these two lines on the basis of our joint venture created by PJSC Zvezda together with UDMZ is currently being resolved. Both St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg can be chosen as the production site. The required amount of investment in the project ranges from 4 billion rubles to 7 billion rubles, depending on the level of localization and technological solutions.
- Are you considering the possibility of supplying equipment for the oil and gas complex?
Various units based on new engines can be created for this industry: diesel pumps, diesel generators and other equipment. There is also a confirmed need, which is easily calculated by the amount of foreign equipment purchased by oil and gas companies. These are “pulsating” volumes; one cannot say that such a market is very stable. But there are many objects in other industries that require maintaining a “life cycle” from an energy point of view. For example, now even every large store has a complex of diesel-electric stations. All this gives quite large promising volumes.
- Is Zvezda not interested in aviation topics?
The direction is interesting, purely theoretically there are possibilities of using new high-speed engines for small aircraft, but this is a fundamentally different direction and is not even a question for tomorrow. We need to study the market and the volume of consumption. According to our estimates, with the successful implementation of the project for serial production of the M-150 and DM-185 engines, a turnover of about 15 billion rubles per year will appear. The presence of such turnover will allow us to develop not only the production site, but also the relationship with clients in terms of meeting their special technical requirements. This will require serious engineering and technological support for such products. If you have an engineering base for specific tasks, be it an Arctic station or a dump truck for working at high altitudes, experience and competence will allow you to move on to other areas and modify the basic machine for consumers from various industries, including aircraft manufacturing. For now, it is more realistic and promising to modify engines to switch to gas engine fuel.
- Do you plan to create other joint ventures and purchase assets?
In the future, specialists related to aggregation may be required. Organizing the production of diesel engines is a fairly clear procedure, but for the engineering and launching of various units based on new engines, the so-called packaging, those with similar experience will be required. There are a number of companies with which we could organize joint work. What it will be - a purchase, a takeover or something else - is the second question.
- How are things going with exports?
All deliveries of military and dual-use products to foreign markets go through Rosoboronexport, and we do not have the right to simply come today, for example, to Latin America, present at an exhibition and sell our products. Unfortunately, this is a unique limitation today that continues to persist despite our numerous requests. This restriction is discriminatory, since Western companies do not have it: they can independently sell any products to any navy, except in cases of some kind of sanctions. This significantly reduces commercialization for us.
Another serious factor is the customer’s requirement for 24/7 service. That is, in each region of our presence we must have an appropriate base with a warehouse of spare parts and a staff of specialists; these are quite significant costs, and, again, the need to conduct everything through Rosoboronexport.
As for the new engines, their initial development was aimed at ensuring global applicability. I believe that we have achieved it. Both due to the price-quality ratio and due to the satisfaction of all pressing requirements - ecology, cost-effectiveness of operation and maintenance, ease and simplicity of operation, modular principle, high degree of information saturation, control and dispatch systems.
- Did the sanctions somehow affect the work of Zvezda?
Twofold. On the one hand, the emergence of sanctions “enlightened” the minds of individual people. The situation has changed radically, the volume of orders has become 10 times more than five years ago. But if earlier we were the focus of inattention - even if there was a golf club on the territory - now, on the contrary, they are closely watching and saying that we are not working effectively enough.
Due to a number of factors, we can so far fulfill the tasks that the state sets for us by approximately 70%. The dynamics of changes turned out to be such that the significantly increased loads (surge in demand) exposed the most problematic areas of the enterprise - for example, in terms of worn-out equipment, insufficient staffing. We do everything that depends on us, but these are objective circumstances that cannot but affect the timing of the work. We are working with these problems and making every effort to solve them. At the same time, it is impossible to say that there is strong government support. It is also impossible to say that it does not exist at all, but I would like it to be more tangible and expressed, first of all, in understanding and in a normal attitude. It is clear that there must be state control, but reasonableness, balance and sufficiency must be present. Now, for example, a document has been issued signed by the President of the Russian Federation regulating the criminal liability of heads of enterprises working in the field of state defense procurement for making “wrong” decisions. The term is from 8 to 10 years, and the wording is very general. Within the framework of these formulations, any manager can be found to have committed violations in the implementation of a state defense order. And this is completely unhealthy.
- What are the forecasts for indicators for 2018-2019?
We expect revenue to grow by one and a half times, to 3.5 billion rubles. Last year we set a goal to double our growth, but real opportunities turned out to be limited, so growth of one and a half times is still the limit. To fulfill the production program, we continue to increase the number of main production workers - by 37% compared to 2017 - to 600 people. Internal investments are planned in the amount of about 300 million rubles.
JSC "ZVEZDA" is one of the largest industrial enterprises in St. Petersburg, the Russian leader in the production of light high-speed diesel engines for various purposes.
The plant was founded in 1932 in Leningrad on the basis of the Mechanical Engineering Department of the country's oldest enterprise - the Bolshevik plant (now the Obukhov plant) and initially specialized in the production of tanks.
The history of the production of diesel engines at the ZVEZDA plant begins in April 1945, when the production of main power plants for Navy combat boats was organized.
In the early 60s. serial production of fundamentally new ultra-light, powerful radial diesel engines ChN16/17, which have no analogues in the world, was mastered, which became the reason for assigning the name “STAR” to the enterprise.
Today's products of the plant for shipbuilding are diesel engines, gearboxes and reverse gearboxes, reverse clutches, planetary gearboxes, diesel generators for high-speed sea and river vessels for various purposes (500 - 7400 kW).
JSC "ZVEZDA" has developed and put into operation more than 200 modifications of engines of standard sizes ChN18/20 and ChN16/17, which are equipped with almost all passenger hydrofoil ships built at Russian shipyards, a significant part of high-speed ships of the Navy, Border Troops, Ministry of Emergency Situations and various shipbuilding enterprises industry.
Modern passenger hydrofoils and patrol boats, created on the basis of the engines of JSC ZVEZDA, reach speeds of up to 90 km/h.
Autumn 2006 The Russian Navy was handed over the newest artillery ship "Astrakhan" (project 21630), equipped with two M507D engines developed and produced by JSC "ZVEZDA" (each of which provides power of 8000 hp) and two diesel generators DHAS-315.
When creating a new series of domestic patrol ships (Project 20380), JSC ZVEZDA turned out to be the only enterprise in Russia that was able to create a two-speed reverse gear transmission in a short time, transmitting a power of 12,000 hp.
From 1958 to the present, JSC ZVEZDA has been one of the main Russian suppliers of diesel engines for the needs of diesel multiple unit rolling stock (DMVPS) railways, which includes diesel trains, motor cars and rail buses, as well as track machines for various purposes.
Today, diesel engines of JSC “ZVEZDA” operate on 9 of 17 railways in Russia (Moscow, Sakhalin, North Caucasus, Privolzhskaya, Gorkovskaya, Kaliningrad railways), as well as in Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and the Baltic countries. They are the basis of traction units of passenger trains serving local and suburban lines on non-electrified sections of railways.
JSC "ZVEZDA" is a leading manufacturer of diesel generator sets and automated power plants for defense, industrial, housing and communal services and other facilities.
The company has manufactured more than 5,000 power plants for the oil and gas industry, the Ministry of Defense, various objects of state importance (buildings of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, etc.) and other customers.
In the last three years, power plants of JSC "ZVEZDA" have been installed in the working villages of the Sakhalin-II project, in nine hospitals in St. Petersburg, the state complex "Palace of Congresses" near St. Petersburg, and the Russian Antarctic station "Progress".
The company has a developed production complex, including its own Engineering Center, foundry, forging and pressing, machining, assembly production, and test benches. JSC "ZVEZDA" provides all manufactured products with spare parts and necessary services.
According to the current restructuring program, new production sites are being created and technological lines are being modernized. The development of the enterprise is facilitated by the introduction of modern management and information systems.
In 2004, the international classification society Bureau Veritas Quality International confirmed the compliance of the quality management system of JSC ZVEZDA with the ISO-9001:2000 standard.
JSC "ZVEZDA" is a member of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of St. Petersburg, the St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Association of Industrial Enterprises of St. Petersburg, and the Russian Union of Mechanical Engineers.